Spirit is My Nanny!
A few weeks ago, the thought of being at home with 5 young boys and a baby sounded like anything but fun. After searching for summer camps and part time nannies to lighten my load, I found that it wasn’t lining up. I was going to send the 6 year old to a day camp because he changed the dynamic of the house the most, but then realized that he needs to be at home with me more than the others because he has spent the least amount of time here, as he has been in kindergarten all day since they joined us. We then decided on a nanny, but weren’t able to find a consistent person to come each day from the nanny company we had previously used, and the others that were recommended to us did not respond promptly. I noted that perhaps the universe was trying to let me know that I didn’t need a nanny, and my intuitive friend and mentor Kristian (risingupforlove.org) agreed and told me, “Spirit is your nanny!” and let me know I didn’t need help.
Hmmm…spirit is my nanny…what does that mean? It means that just like all of us, I have the power to create my environment with the thoughts that I think and the energy I bring to any situation. That I have more power to affect my surroundings than I can possibly imagine and I can call on the universe (Spirit, God, energy, etc) to provide any help that I need. That if I am aligned and acting from a place of love and light and positivity, I can do anything – even take care of 5 young boys and a baby and still have fun!
And oh the fun we have had! We go to the park, the pool, the zoo, the beach! It has been an amazing lesson in how much operating from my higher self (the peaceful and loving place deep inside) will affect my surroundings – even on “crazy” boys. They help me cook and fold laundry (and they think it’s fun!), they work together and help out so we can do fun things (with the big ones pulling the little ones in the wagon), and they all get along amazingly well compared to how it was a few short weeks ago.
There are still rough days where they are mean to each other and don’t get along or they get bored, but the result is tears rather than aggression and it’s a “normal” energy-filled home. And of course I have rough days where they irritate me, but I have not once thought that we shouldn’t have taken them in or that I wish I wasn’t at home with them.
How is this possible? One reason is that I take care of myself first so I can stay in alignment with peace and love. I’ll write more about what this means in another post, but I still meditate every day and take a nap almost every day. How is that possible? I’ll write more about that too and where I can “find” time, but basically the kids all clean up after themselves and even the older ones have “rest time” where they can play quietly on their beds if they don’t want to sleep (although on most days they do). I constantly pay attention to my energy (see why this is so important here) and what is triggering me so I can do my “work” and get back into alignment, which then of course affects the energy of the entire house, because as we know from quantum physics and the law of attraction, what I put out is what I get back.
Also, I know that this is without a doubt my “destiny” – a.k.a, exactly where I’m supposed to be right now. I have always known that I wanted to help people, and have always been drawn to helping children. For years I thought I wanted to be a social worker, but found too much red tape in the government, so I went a different direction, but always knew I didn’t want to spend my life working for someone else in a career that I didn’t love. My husband and I have always talked about filling our house with laughter and love and always knew we wanted to be foster parents, so it made complete sense that after we had our baby, I stayed at home and we added to our small family.
In following that inner call, sometimes a whisper and sometimes a yell, I find myself surrounded by love, laughter and light and know that I’m exactly where I should be.
What is your soul calling you to do? Follow that call, and even on hard days, life will be grand!
